Theatre of the Oppressed

The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1970s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist Paulo Freire - wikipedia

Brazilian theater director and writer Augusto Boal presenting his Theatre of the Oppressed at Riverside Church in New York City. - wikimedia.org

Boal's techniques use theatre as means of promoting social and political change. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as spect-actors they explore, show, analyse and transform the reality in which they are living.

Participants in the Theatre of the Oppressed workshop presented by Brazilian theater director and writer Augusto Boal at Riverside Church in New York City. - wikimedia.org

# Sortition

This is a methodology and performance piece that I am currently working. The work is supported by a techno-social framework that combines deliberative democracy with certain ideas from liquid law.

Sortition is closely related to the 100% methodology of Rimini Protokoll, but presents this together with the futuristic conception of the Politician as Spokesperson.